one who knows much history, but only lets out small amounts to either (a) annoy people or (b) try to make themselves seem intellegent/funny/cool/historiful.
People believe President Barack Hussein Obama to be "historic" because he is the first half-white, half-black President of the U.S. This so-called "history" making gives guilty white liberals something to tout as they increase their rhetoric that anyone who opposes the "historic" president is racist. In fact, some white people, including many in mainstream media feel so guilty being white that they say they got "thrills up their leg" from seeing this happen.
the era following the post-modern era. As new media provides instant documentation of events both large and small, and all recordings of earlier historic records are contained online, this era will be one in which our understanding of time and global events will be within the context of momentary and fleeting bits of information.
Study of history will be a fluid and all-encompassing creative work.
the New York Times? man, that's such a post-historic times entity...
The murder of history; accomplished when a historian leans too far to the postmodernist/relativist or too far to the scientific/objectivist side of the spectrum.
Gibbon nearly committed historicide back there. Thank goodness Ranke has sorted us all out.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing peecalculus.